One of the most disturbing realities in the current show business market is that the same person created Glee and American Horror Story, and adding one to his portfolio, Ryan Murphy has had his newest horror anthology series, Scream Queens, commissioned by Glee broadcasters Fox.

Whilst his previous show on the network was a musical comedy-drama around high-school students singing in a ‘glee club’, Murphy, alongside Glee co-creators Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan, will take a sinister turn when they moved on to this project, with the 15-part series set to focus on a college that becomes the site of a series of murders.

It is claimed that production on the series, which is to consist of hour-long episodes, will begin in early 2015, presumably for a release later that year.

Speaking of the first season order, Murphy stated of his newest anthology: “I knew I wanted to work with Brad and Ian again on something comedic, and we are having a blast writing Scream Queens. We hope to create a whole new genre – comedy-horror – and the idea is for every season to revolve around two female leads. We’ve already begun a nationwide search for those women, as well as ten other supporting roles, and we’re very grateful to Dana and Gary for their enthusiastic support.”

This time taking his scary stories to Fox‘s main network rather than cable channel FX (where American Horror Story was recently renewed for a fifth season (alongside a commissioning for spin-off American Crime Story), following the successful network record-breaking 10 million viewers for the fourth season American Horror Story: Freak Show premiere episode), will Scream Queens be a show that a ‘from the creators of Glee‘ tag helps or hinders?